A London Friday - part 1

Our Friday in London was amazingly full of activities.

First off, we went to the British Museum and spent several very happy hours there. Roo & I were just saying recently that it would be easy to go to London in the winter & just spend the entire time hiding from the weather in the amazing (& free!) museums.

Here's a slide show of some of the highlights for us. You'll notice a heavy Egyptian slant - because we all really like Egyptian art and antiquities. It was pretty much all we saw in the BM and we spent about 4 h there!



Then, after a bit of shopping at the gift store & a quick snack, we were off. We had to switch trains at the Baker Street Station so we quickly hopped out for a photo with a statue of Sherlock Holmes.

 

 

There is a museum at 221 B Baker Street but we didn't go in. Instead, we headed out to Hyde Park. 

   

We weren't quite at the park yet when we saw some horses and just followed them.

  

More horses at the park, and :( missing dog signs. 

  

We saw lots of running loose dogs in the park, including this beautiful husky. 

Oh Look! It's raining again! We're in the Italian Gardens at Hyde Park. 

 

  

Raining really hard now! 

We perservered in our stroll through the park & ended up at the Albert Memorial.

Obviously Queen Victoria missed Albert very much but we all think she got carried away with the memorial.
It's like she kept adding stuff on to the design plans. Can there be gold? And pillars? And a cross? And bobbles? And towers? And native Americans? And elephants?

Some hapless official just had to keep nodding and saying Of course, Your Majesty.

 

I think Queen Vicky would have loved the bedazzler.  

By now the sun was shining again & we headed off towards Kensington Palace.  

I TOLD you to ask for directions.  No way this is Toronto.

Tada! Sunshine & Kensington Palace & Queen Victoria. Oh & my pretty girl too!

 

Here's my Bazinga dude at the gates by Kensington Palace. 

Stay tuned for Part 2 of London Friday!